Beard sacrificing liberty in the pursuit of security” may have been one of the most common forms of religious proselytizing in early American history.
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There are other instances where ”devout zeal” has gone beyond the bounds of Christian rhetoric.
”In 1808, Rev. Henry D. Lee, a citizen of the town of Kirtland in Tennesse